For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies…
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Debates about the etiology of addiction among researchers and policymakers have a long history and continue to the present day. In contemporary societies within a range of nations, the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) has received strong support. This has come, in particular, from US agencies such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and American Society of Addiction Medi…
This chapter develops process tracing (PT) as a method for Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It explains what it takes to conduct PT, trace a mechanism, and draw conclusions on that basis. Importantly, I develop a form of PT that is amendable to the more actor-centered and oftentimes, though not necessarily, interpretivist approaches to FPA (Houghton 2007; Hudson 2005). In the PT I propose ther…
In this chapter, I examine three deontological objections to adblocking: the objection from property (according to which adblocking involves accessing another’s property without satisfying the conditions placed on such access by the owner), the objection from complicity (according to which, by blocking ads, consumers become complicit in wrongdoing of adblocking software providers), and the ob…
This chapter explores the methodology and epistemological interventions of standpoint theory, specifically focusing on the work of feminist philosopher Sandra Harding. The chapter introduces the development of Harding’s standpoint theory and shows how it has engaged in dialogue with and contributed to feminism, decolonial theory and intersectionality.
There were two key legal doctrines affecting English women’s relationship with property of all kinds. The first was primogeniture, the feudal arrangement by which titles and real property were inherited by the eldest son
Sistem pengambilan gambar jarak jauh adalah elemen kunci dalam pertanian yang efisien dan berkelanjutan saat ini. Mereka semakin banyak digunakan untuk memperoleh informasi yang menarik dari tanaman, tanah, dan lingkungan. Ini mencakup berbagai jenis perangkat penangkap: dari satelit dan drone, hingga perangkat di lapangan; berbagai jenis informasi spektral, dari gambar RGB yang terlihat, hingg…
Volume ini merupakan campuran eklektik dari penerapan metode Monte Carlo di banyak bidang penelitian yang seharusnya tidak mengejutkan, karena penggunaan metode ini di mana-mana di banyak bidang usaha manusia. Dalam upaya untuk memusatkan perhatian pada serangkaian aplikasi yang dapat dikelola, tujuan utama buku ini adalah untuk menekankan penerapan metode simulasi Monte Carlo dalam biologi dan…